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I eventually solved it myself with a significantly simpler and more robust method
porcoda on Hacker News
In the thread “Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals”
Helped: User's own CS fundamentals allowed them to solve the problem.
Got in the way: AI generated exceptionally complex and brittle solutions.
… The latest Claude and GPT assistants recognized this, but their solutions were exceptionally complex and brittle. I eventually solved it myself with a significantly simpler and more robust method (both AIs even gleefully agreed that my solution was slick after I did it). Had I let my CS fundamentals go to waste I wouldn’t have been able to solve it myself, nor would I have been able to recognize that the solutions posed by the models were needlessly complex. …